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Human Microbiome Science: Vision for the Future

Microbial biofilm of mixed species from human body. From A. Earl (Broad Institute/MIT, 2012)

July 24-26, 2013

Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
5701 Marinelli Road
North Bethesda, Md. 20852
(301) 822-9200

The purpose of this meeting, supported in part by an NIH grant to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, is to provide an overview of cutting-edge work in NIH-supported microbiome research and to identify both the obstacles to and opportunities for progress in this emerging area of biomedical research. 

 

 


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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Theme of the Day: Overview and Approaches
  Topic Speaker
1 Call to Order, Charge for the Meeting
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Owen R. White, Ph.D.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
2 Supercharging Science for the Superorganism
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Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
3 NIH Human Microbiome Project: An Update
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Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D.
NHGRI
4 Keynote 1: Diversity, Stability and Resilience of the Microbiome
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David A. Relman, M.D.
Stanford School of Medicine
5 ELSI Issues and Microbiome Studies
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Rosamond Rhodes, Ph.D.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital
6 The Microbiome and Obama Administration Science Program
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Robbie Barbero, Ph.D.
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Basic Biology of the Microbiome
7 Microbiome Colonization and Assembly
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Ruth E. Ley, Ph.D.
Cornell University
8 Microbiome Dynamics in Adults
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Jacques Ravel, Ph.D.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
9 Composition and Dynamics of the Human Virome
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Frederic D. Bushman, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Microbiome Tools, Technologies, Approaches Part 1
10 Multi-omics of the Human microbiome - Filling in the Missing Links
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Janet Jansson, Ph.D.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
11 Approaches for Host Immune/Microbiome Studies
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Dan Rudolf Littman, M.D. Ph.D.
New York University
12 Functional Analysis of Human Microbiome, Metagenomes, Metatranscriptomes, and Multi'omics
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Curtis Huttenhower, Ph.D.
Harvard School of Public Health
Microbiome Tools, Technologies, Approaches Part 2
13 From Correlation to Causation in Human Microbiome Studies
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Rob Knight, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute AND University of Colorado, Boulder
14 Large Data Management, Data Standards, Data Sharing
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Owen R. White, Ph.D.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
15 Open Floor Discussion
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Ed Yong
Nature/National Geographic

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Theme of the Day: Interactions of the Host/Microbiome System
  Topic Speaker
16 Day 2 Introduction
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Owen R. White, Ph.D.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
17 Keynote 2: The Modern vs Ancestral Microbiome
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Maria Dominguez-Bello, Ph.D.
New York University
Host Immune System/Microbiota Interactions
18 Bacterial Colonization Factors Control Specificity and Stability of Gut Microbiota
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Sarkis K. Mazmanian, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
19 Ground Zero - The Impact of the Gut Microbiome on Host Epithelial Functions and Responses
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Eugene B. Chang, M.D.
University of Chicago
20 Wound Healing to Longevity: Harnessing Microbe-Induced Hormonal and Immune Proficiency for Human Health
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Susan E. Erdman, D.V.M.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Microbiome and Disease Associations
21 Eczema, Immunity and the Skin Microbiome
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Heidi H. Kong, MD
National Cancer Institute
22 The Lung Microbiome: Challenging Old Paradigms about Microbes and the Host Respiratory Tract
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Gary B. Huffnagle, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
23 The Microbiome in Infectious and Noninfectious Gut Inflammation
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Vincent B. Young, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Functional Interactions between Host & Microbiome
24 Control of Epithelial Proliferation by the Microbiome
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Andrew S. Neish, M.D.
Emory University School of Medicine
25 Moving Towards a Metagenomic Basis of Therapeutics
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Peter J. Turnbaugh, Ph.D.
Harvard University
26 Microbial Metabolites and their Regulation of Colonic Regulatory T Cell Homeostasis
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Wendy S. Garrett, M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard School of Public Health
Diet and the Microbiome
27 Diet-Microbiota Interactions and The Elderly
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Ian B. Jeffery, Ph.D.
University College Cork
28 Diet, Childhood Nutrition and the Microbiome
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Kathryn G. Dewey, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
29 Gut Microbial Metabolism of Food Constituents: Modulating Human Dietary Exposures
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Johanna W. Lampe, Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
30 Open Floor Discussion
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Ed Yong
Nature/National Geographic

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Friday, July 26, 2013

Theme of the Day: Translational Research and the Microbiome
  Topic Speaker
31 Keynote 3: Translational Science and the Microbiome
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Jonathan Braun, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
32 The Microbiome: Getting to Products that Benefit Patients
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Jesse L. Goodman, M.D.
Food and Drug Administration
Translation - Body/Microbiome Axis
33 Microbiome, Brain and Behavior
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Ted Dinan, MD, Ph.D.
University College Cork
34 Microbiome and Obesity
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Martin J. Blaser, M.D.
New York University
35 Microbiome and Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers
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Stanley Hazen, M.D., Ph.D.
Cleveland Clinic
36 From Associative Microbial Dysbiosis Observation to Functional Cancer Studies: What Have We Larned from Colorectal Cancer?
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Christian Jobin, Ph.D.
University of Florida
37 Harvesting the Molecular Wealth of Microbiomes
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Julian Davies, Ph.D.
The University of British Columbia
38 Human Microbiome Science Meeting - Housekeeping Items/Points of Interest
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Lita M. Proctor, Ph.D.
NHGRI

Owen R. White, Ph.D.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Probiotics, MB Vaccines, Fecal Transplants
39 State of the Science and Obstacles: Fecal Microbiota Transplantation
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Alexander Khoruts, M.D.
University of Minnesota
40 Use of Microbial Ecosystems to Treat Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection

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Elaine Petrof, M.D.
Queen's University
41 A Milk-Oriented Microbiota (MOM) in Infants - How Babies find their MOMs: Insights for Next Generation Prebiotics and Probiotics
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David A. Mills, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
42 Microbiota and Vaccines
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Eric Brown, Ph.D.
The University of British Columbia
43 Final Open Floor Discussion
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Ed Yong
Nature/National Geographic

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